Acting
Sonia Dresdel
Sonia Dresdel (5 May 1909 - 18 January 1976) was an English actress, whose career ran between the 1940s and 1970s. She was born Lois Obee in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, England and was educated at Aberdeen High School for Girls. Her leading role in the 1947 film While I Live gained her a great deal of acclaim. In the film she plays Julia Trevelyan, a spinster living in a lonely cliff top house in Cornwall and haunted by the death of her sister 25 years earlier. Her most noted role was that of "Mrs. Baines" in the 1948 film version of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol, which starred Ralph Richardson and Michèle Morgan. The film received Academy Awards nominations for Best Director (Sir Carol Reed) and Best Screenplay. She died of undisclosed causes, aged 66.
Filmography
The Pallisers
Series · 1974
Lizzie Dripping
Series · 1973
Lady Caroline Lamb
Film · 1972
Sykes
Series · 1972
Sykes
Series · 1972
The Onedin Line
Series · 1971
Wives and Daughters
Series · 1971
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
Film · 1970
The Caesars
Series · 1968
The Man in the Iron Mask
Series · 1968
City '68
Series · 1967
Boy Meets Girl
Series · 1967
Mystery and Imagination
Series · 1966
North and South
Series · 1966
BBC Play of the Month
Series · 1965
The Mill on the Floss
Series · 1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Series · 1965
The Break
Film · 1963
The Human Jungle
Series · 1963
Jane Eyre
Series · 1963
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Film · 1960
The Adventures of Alice
Film · 1960
Maigret
Series · 1960
Mystery of Edwin Drood
Series · 1960
Now and Forever
Film · 1956
Armchair Theatre
Series · 1956
Armchair Theatre
Series · 1956
David Copperfield
Series · 1956
The Third Visitor
Film · 1951
The Clouded Yellow
Film · 1950
The Fallen Idol
Film · 1948
This Was a Woman
Film · 1948
While I Live
Film · 1947
The World Owes Me a Living
Film · 1945